According to the dictionary of the Spanish language, plagiarism is the action of substantially copying the works of others, giving them as one's own. Presenting another person's work as your own work includes copying or reproducing it without acknowledgment of the source.

Plagiarism involves the use of phrases or sentences copied directly from a text or paraphrasing the words of a very close text, as well as figures, photographs, images or diagrams from any source, without citing the author. Also the use of statistics or facts collected from another person or source, without citing it.

Urkund plagiarism detection program that compares the content with a database of publications and generates a similarity report, highlighting the percentage of overlap between the uploaded article and the published material. Any instances of content overlap are further analyzed for suspected plagiarism in accordance with the journal's editorial policies.